Method of copying lenticclated



F. sTREcKER 2,040,280

METHOD OF COPYING LENTICULATED FILMS Filed Sept. 23, 1932 7///'///////4W////////; 0I n( May l2, 1936.

j @if Patented May 12, 1936 2,040,280 lVIETHOD 0F COPYING LENTICULATED FIIMS Felix Strecker, Berlin-Semenssta Siemens & vHalske, schaft, Siemensstadt, near Berlin,

assignor to corporation of Germany Application September 23, 1932, Serial No. 634,528

In Germany September 23, 1931 3 Claims. (Cl. 88-24) This application is a continuation inpart of my copending application Ser. No. 600,891.

This invention relates to a Imethod of and devices for copying lenticulated films. An advantage of the new method consists in that in the copyingr process faults can be corrected, which have been produced during the taking process by the fact that the image portions co-ordinated to the different zones have not the same contrasts.

Another advantage is that in the copying process films can be usedwhose sensitivity is within a rather narrow range of the visible spectrum materially higher than in other ranges. Hence copies can be made on films the emulsion of which has not been sensitized uniformly by the use of special colouring matters for all the colours of the spectrum.

Further advantages of the invention will be more fully explained with the aid of the figures.

The object of the invention is that the portions of the photographic layer co-ordinated by means of the lenticular elements to the various zones of the taking filter are copied differently and that thereby light of' such wave-lengths is chosen that the sensitivity of the emulsions of the copying film is high for the light employed.

The new method can be carried into effect by means of devices which are shown in the figures. The two figures illustrate two devices in section.

Fig. 1 is a sectional diagrammatic view showing one optical system with which the invention may be practised;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing another optical system.

In Fig. l the original film carrying the image to be copied is designated by I and the unexposed film on which the imageis copied by 2. The photographic layer of the originalvfilm has been given the number 3 and the photographic layer of the copying film is marked 4.

Between the two films there is placed an optical system consisting, of the two lenses 5 and 6 and the colour filter 1. This colour filter is composed of zones 8, 9, and Ill adjacent to one another. The number of the zones coincides with that of the zones used in the taking process, and it is of course understood that on the emulsion of the original film I, there will be formed color records corresponding to the zones of the filter, and that the colors of the zones are equal substantially to white light. As for the rest the colour filter and the optical system are so designed that the image of the colour filter viewed from film I coincides in situation and size with the image of the colour filter used in the taking process. Corredt, Germany, Aktiengesell- Germany, a

spondingly the filter image viewed from film A2 must coincide with the filter.

In front of the original film,

image of the projecting there is a light source Il and a condenser I2 collecting the light of the light source on ated from the light the film. The light radisource is abundant in rays having a wave-length to which the emulsion 4 is extremely reactive. graphic emulsions are very wave rays, use is abundant in such The zones 8, 9

As most of the photosensitive to shortmade of a light source which is rays.

, and I0 of the colour filter 1 have different permeability ranges, which are,

however, chosen so larly sensitive to the that the emulsion is particulight passing through them.

On the useof an ordinary photographic emulsion, the filter can, such a manner, that zone green light, zone 8 is permeable to blue- 9 to visible violet light and zone I0 to invisible ultra-violet light.

Though the photographic emulsions are in general more sensitive to ultra-violet light than to visible light, use can nevertheless be made simultaneously of visible in general, the glass lenses employed absorb and decrease theultra-violet light to a larger extent than the visible light.

If however the zones copied with ultra-violet light should be too much blackened, the filter reactive to ultra-'violet light must zone of this filter covered by a diaphragm. If, on the ultra-violet light should be ened by the optical system,

denser or the glass, this can be The new method permits one occurring on the copying process. matic emulsions either be chosen must be partly the other hand, too much weakwhich is made oi replaced by one of quartz.

to correct faults original film by means of the For even on the use of panchrofor taking purposes difficulties are encountered in obtaining the same parts of the photographic layer.

contrasts for all The slope of the H- and D-curves of an emulsion is in general different for the different filter colours.

If now use is made for the copy of the light of suitable wavelength ranges, it

is possible to assimilate the gammas to one another which differ on the original from one another.

For carrying colour filter to e The copying process can through also be advantageous tions corresponding to the new method, it may the various zones of the xposures of different duration. be carried out in such a portion of the zones of d and only, for instance zone I0 first, a

and ultra-violet light, since,

to subjectthe image porf for instance, be chosen in is left permeable. The lms are then copied. After having covered zone I0 and opened one or several of the remaining Another device for carrying out the new method has been represented in Fig. 2. The light from the light source I I is collected by the condenser I3 on the lm to be copied. Between condenser and lm there is placed the colour filter Il. It consists of three zones I5, I 6, and I1. The number and size of the zones is again in accordance with the number and size of the zones of the filter used in the taking process. In order to adapt the size and distance of the filter image viewed from lm I, to the corresponding condilenses I8 and 20 and containing the colour filter 1.

with those of the zones I5, I6, and I7 respectively. In the copying process the permeabilities are chosen so as to lie in the range of the highest sensitivity of the emulsion of lm 2.

On determining the wavelengths used for copying the diiferent image portions, attention should be paid to the fact that the slope of the H- and D-curves. decisive for the finished image, is under certain circumstances diierent from the slope of these curves inherent in the production of ordinary takes. ing for obtaining direct positives,. as well as the great iineness of the lenticulations can give rise to 'diierent slopes of the characteristic curves.

I claim as my invention:

1. In copying from an original lenticulated ilm to a copy lenticulated film, said original film having behind each lenticulation thereof a group of records representing colors corresponding to the dlierent zones of the taking iilter, the method which comprises testing the gamma values of the The use of the reversing process serv- I copy lm and of the original lm, projecting light through the original lm to the copy film, between 2. In copying from an original lenticulated film to a copy lenticulated lm, said original film having behind each lenticulation thereof a. group of records representing colors corresponding to the different zones of the taking lter, the method which comprises testing the gamma values of the copy film and of the original iilrn, projecting light through the original lm to the copy film, between the two il ms passing the light through a color eures may be varied.

3. In copying from an original lenticulated film different zones of the taking lter, the method which comprises placing the original and copy their lenticulations facing towards a. 

